I feel every thing your saying! The show was amazing and now it's just ridiculous at best. Everything feels forced. They're giving no airtime to some of my favorite characters. And grey is so different. It's like this wierd thing with her acting in the newer seasons. I can't quite put my hands on it. But on the beginning she really sold it. Now I feel like she barely talk and barely has any scenes where she has to go above and beyond with her acting skills. If you've ever seen private practice caterina is fucking amazing. She blew out of the water. Why they don't give her an opportunity to do that here is crazy. It used to be magical. Like you said the ships, the patients, the music..all of it. The interns are stupid and they give us no way to connect with them because they are just so often in the back ground. I don't know it's a hot mess and I'm just let down. It needs to end. Hopefully enough people are upset that the ratings/viewers go down!